skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
London police are pretty much pro dysfunction at this point.
Most kids these days just want to be "influencers"
Agree with your micro analysis.

I also think in the current macroeconomic climate, CRE owners, and their banks/hedgies/reits or other bond/loan owners are crossing their fingers, turning a blind-eye to the telescope, holding their breath, and waiting for the Fed to lower interest rates.

Of course, if the Fed holds higher-for-longer (as many expect in the face of continuing high inflation), they will be waiting to exhale to the point of asphyxiation.

How did CRE go completely bankrupt? "Slowly, then suddenly."
The patch works really well. When I quit I bought the step 1 patches and just cut them down to ween myself off the nicotine. They work good because they help you tackle the habit while keeping the nicotine cravings down. The habit is actually the tough part to overcome.
They don't miss the ability to read; they are just grinding through a high-volume sales job.
No, I'm not implying that it was the Google Playstore's fault. I just meant to say that Flutter was awesome when they were mobile focused, and that's the reason I started developing some apps. It's just coincidental that my account got shut down by Google for misuse, when Google shuts down the team building the app framework I used. No shade on Flutter at all (except flutter web, which is still kinda shit).
I actually feel a bit sad that there will be no company left out there willing to pick up the slack.

> Because if my mobile app can run on Web without much tinkering, I'm signed up for it.

Except it won't. You'll suffer from poor SEO, poor rendering, poor performance, everything bad about Flutter. And all unnecessarily.
No I don't think it's about compactness of expression, but rather what it's possible to express at all.
Hey!
I've been playing a lot with speech to text and GPT-4, and have come up with this as I always struggle under pressure in technical interview as a software engineer. I can use this app to detect questions in the interview transcript at certain intervals (seems to work best at 15 second intervals). The AI then quickly returns the answers to any direct questions. Would love your feedback on how I could improve it.
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Tom
It has mecha elements, as well as steampunk and magic elements too.

Other than their kits, everything else they operate is very standard WW1-esque tech.
If Valhala ever lands, you will be able to do as in C#, D,...

Until then, the best way currently, is to make use of Panama to create a C struct like memory layout, and have accessor methods for the low level details.
Google translate decided to convert the page to english. I was very pleased by the results, as they'd make fantastic names for Math Rock songs.

Till hydrogen Reserved Vulputate salad sad running. In fact, there is no advantage from the members of the pregnant, not only a lot.
To do well with software engineering, you have to enjoy it. It needs to be one of your personal interests, not just a professional one.

If you're only in it because it pays well, you've got the wrong idea and will run into those "throw the laptop out the window" urges and are likely to burn out fast and take up woodworking, or some other thing.
> . If a torrent site asks for USB access I'm going to say no

You keep pretending that only torrent sites (or scammy sites) will be asking for this.

Here's an ad network on a legitimate site asking for access to MIDI:https://x.com/denschub/status/1582730985778556931

> No sites ask for all of those permissions.

You don't have to ask for all permissions. There are so many permissions that you only need a subset
That's bullshit. Building maintenance per tenant is on the order of single-digit hours of work per week per tenant, and that's for landlords that bother to show up. If your argument is that they provide the services of a handyman, then they can bill hourly like a handyman--i.e. live near or below the poverty line like most handymen. To say that there's a disconnect between the labor and the income is an understatement; the labor is simply negligible in comparison to the income.

The number of tenant properties one would have to manage to reach even a 40-hour workweek average is quite large, and by that point, most landlords would hire a super.
I would highly recommend against using him or a vape. When you use gum or the vape you aren't combatting the addiction or the habit. Using the patch is more effective as it allows you to tackle the habit while weening yourself off the nicotine
>Otherwise, a fight between two pregnant women could be seen as a mech fight.

I mean, when you consider what pregnancy does to an expectant mother, hormonally, and the lengths to which some will go to protect their unborn child... It's not an entirely implausible characterization.

But speaking to AOT, specifically, it's real robot with some super robot/fantasy/Abrahamic text characteristics to allow for the setting. Despite the "summoning" aspect, practical considerations of when and how to employ titans, the political, social, and philosophical ramifications of their existence and use, and the fact that the story is ultimately a study of characters caught up in war and history and intrigue, all point to a solid mecha, real robot classification.
Exactly. Your comment summarizes the situation perfectly.
> They just call out the surgery in an attempt to claim that with a tubal ligation, talc should be blocked from moving up the fallopian tubes. They don't even realize they contradicted their own results.

They did address this and noted that in patients with tubal ligation the talc distribution was different and lymphatic rather than “mechanical” through the fallopian tubes.

Still not sure what your angle is here.

It’s known that talc is inflammatory. It’s literally used with that intention medically. We don’t use powdered latex gloves in the modern day nearly as frequently as before, mostly because of latex allergy but also due to concerns that talc exposure leads to worse peritoneal scarring/adhesions.

The fact that talc is present inside the surgical specimens is bad in and of itself, regardless of how it got there. That implies an environmental cause for the malignancy, a la asbestos or smoking.
> Kids these days don’t know basic assembly

I have to disagree on that one.

Most CS programs will have an assembly class as a mandatory one.

Is it used daily? No. Would they be incredibly rusty and probably require a refresher? Probably, but so would most people on something not used daily.
LFG is a CLI tool that helps you find the right terminal commands for your tasks
I created a terminal tool in Python to help me explain CLI commands based on the llama3 model using Grog. Works surprisingly well, and has helped me doing my work a bit quicker than using Google/ChatGPT directly.

Another note is that I did not like the Github Copilot due to the strange command syntax. Could of course create an alias here to simplify it.

Nothing special about the code. Quite straight forward. Feel free to modify it as you wish.
I don't know why you got that feeling, TFA says this:

> Some view C as a language so simple and raw that you’ll spend all your time working around the language’s lack of built in data structures, and fixing pointer bugs. The truth is that C’s simplicity is a strength. It compiles quickly. Its syntax doesn’t hide complex operations. It’s simple enough that I don’t have to constantly look things up. And I can easily compile it to both native and web assembly. While C has its share of quirks, I avoid them by habits developed over 22 years of use.

Which is nothing unreasonable.

I code mostly in a Lisp dialect but I don't take offense at, say, the Linux kernel being mostly C.
Hudson Pacific just fleeced the pension fund.
Paid 93m, got 219 + 43.5, and now own the building outright and clear.
Hyakunin Isshu

The University of Virginia has a webpage with some of the best english translations, even better then most published books.
Anime and Fascism really do seem to walk hand-in-hand a lot.

Even my beloved Frieren has an unnatural dehumanistic streak against Demons who exhibit intelligence and personalities, which she explains away as mere mimicry, despite the fact that she has learned magic from them.

I guess I know which side of the AI debate she rests on.
Unified model links recency and central tendency biases in working memory
Not really; DOM API still absent, calling between modules has high overhead, etc.

It's close though.

Reducing module to module call overhead is important for being able to split larger WASM applications without needing to do so by performance boundary rather than logical or other optimised boundary calc. Doing this properly probably means a proper dynamic linking approach or something but I'm no expert.

DOM API is self explanatory. The whole point of the web is the unified presentation layer but being forced to talk to it via a bridge sucks. Once it's done then WASM/DOM becomes GTK on steroids.
Ask HN: FOSS notes offline app with navigation tree, ideally cross platform?
What solutions do HN users use for note taking?

So far most of the notes app I see require accounts or are webapps that allow self-hosting. Offline locally run apps are designed for collaboration or development and not quite what I am looking for.

Ideally, I would like a locally run non-electron app that understands markdown files, can show a navigation pane based on markdown headings, and has tabs and allows saving sessions.

To meet that need I use texstudio, never compile, and just use headings, subheadings and subsubheadings so they show up in the navigation pane, but doing the same thing with markdown and an app based around doing so would be preferable.

Are there any good solutions for such a workflow?
The article really needs more reporting on what exactly they were told from the other side of the table, even if half of the time it would have been unexcusable bullshit.

For the lawyer job it's said she left upset, but we don't get anything more about the interaction, which seemed to be the crucial part if it was a test.

I'd see a point if the core of the job is to deal with conflictual situations, and it could be fair if the cabinet took the time to explain why they fail the test and how they could have been better (doesn't sound like they did, but it would at least balance the stress imposed on the candidates)
do they really expect a good grade from a messed up code? How many of them?
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The joy of debugging memory corruption issues on production, while helpdesk keeps pinging dev team several times a day.

Yep, I have multiple scars and gray hairs due to them.
> I couldn't find the SWR hooks though.

What do you have in mind?

> Also, the interface isn't pretty atm.

Agreed, creating pretty UIs is not my strongest suit if I am completely honest, and could use a help with that. But I have been polishing it up steadily, though sometimes it is an uphill battle with iced-rs.

> The Video could probably show more practical examples than Game of Life

Also agreed. Game of Life demo was supposed to show the interactivity of a view and was easy to implement but at some point I would like to add something more usable as a builtin plugin. For the code example I think it would be better to have that in documentation which is the next on my TODO list

All in all, good points
I hope it gets enough critical mass too!
Especially since most Bengalis would say moshla...
This is something I have always found interesting. Most people cannot write JavaScript but think they can because the syntax looks familiar and then complain when the result is shit.

There is some hidden assumption this language should reflect some other language a given programmer is formerly trained in and then disappointed when JavaScript is not their favorite pet language. Further interesting is that there is no interest or investment in formal training in JavaScript, just assumptions and failed dreams.

In that spirit when people say getting good I usually take that to mean looking more like Java, C#, or whatever.
Luminar cuts 20% of staff and outsources Lidar production
The problem is that once you spend any reasonable amount of time with something that doesn't suck it becomes hard to look at JS/TS the same way. The warts feel so much worse when you know it doesn't need to be that way.
Everything that lives dies. And everything that dies is going to be food for something else sooner or later. Nothing is going to change that reality.

That pig is going to die. How is dying to feed humans worse than the inevitable alternative of dying to feed some other living thing?
The problem is that going from assembly to advanced compilers still produced the same output every time with variations based on you selecting them from a limited pool of options.

With LLMs, statistics play a much more important role so you're really not in the same realm anymore. It's like going from digital to analog, things work differently at a core level.
> First, there's no need to record anything in any EMR, this is a big misunderstanding. The act of sending the script is recording it itself. There's no need to do data entry in EMR.

Not quite. Hospital EMRs now have barcoding and scanning, for timed doses being delivered an to make sure they were - saw it first hand in the past year.

This is a shadow working culture issue, not a technical one.

Hospital workplace cultures can be quite toxic, and that plays out varying degrees of horrible for certain segments of the population 60 percent of the time, every time.

In hospitals, prescriptions are administered usually by a nurse.

Since it's a problem that can be casually looked away from because it doesn't impact one group, it can be downplayed.
Since you can never be 100.0% sure about anything, the Precautionary Principal always results in deciding not to do something.

This is why people only apply it to things they don't want to do.
> I believe LLMs can be useful but you need to understand what it’s generating

That was never in dispute and not disagreed with in what I wrote. I didn’t say “using an LLM is wrong in any capacity” nor is that implied by anything I wrote. I use ChatGPT daily, I even told students they should use it if they needed help with understanding concepts outside of class”. I didn’t “gatekeep” programming, I just said they couldn’t use AI during an exam.

> I believe LLMs can be useful but you need to understand what it’s generating.

Yeah, if only we had some way of EXAMining if the students understand what they were generating. Like, crazy idea, maybe we could have some kind of crazy test where they aren’t allowed to use ChatGPT or Copilot to make sure they understand the concepts first before we let them have a hand-holding world.
Simple for you is not simple for a beginner.

For example, let’s say you wanted to write code in a language you did not know. Then these simple tasks can be accelerated because you’re not blocked by syntax errors.
Bountysource has been offline for a bit. Does anyone know of an alternative?
Same thing that happened to universities.

Management people do not want to deal with awkward, weird, introvert developers/academics. Instead, they get lower-level people as recruiters and administrators that are like themselves, but willing to deal with developers and such.

Meaning, we did it to ourselves by not knowing how to deal with people.
"During our research, Android Authority was also able to obtain a copy of the Rabbit R1’s firmware. Our analysis reveals that Rabbit did not make significant modifications to the BSP (Board Support Package) provided by MediaTek. The R1, in fact, still ships with all the standard apps included in AOSP, as well as the many apps provided by MediaTek."
I agree with all that. But the point for OS vendors is we'd prefer to have to support just one firmware type (one less axis on the ol' test matrix), and since physical PC hardware has largely settled on UEFI, that's what virtual machines will use too.
I've been working on a unique music visualizer inspired by the abstract expressionism of Mark Rothko. It features dynamic, colored panes that shift over textured backgrounds, adapting seamlessly to any music played through Spotify or a local file.

This project combines my passions for art, music, and technology. The visualizer uses a set of rotating color palettes to evoke different emotions and atmospheres, tailored to enhance the listening experience. It’s designed to be deeply immersive, aiming to evoke feelings similar to standing before a Rothko painting but in a musical context.

Here are some highlights:
Leveraged Gen AI tools Chat GPT 4 and DALL-E 2 to create a lot of the background images.

Check it out here: https://youtu.be/NNj4Arm7hAc

Looking forward to your thoughts and feedback!

Bryan
I think I agree with your point (I would pick a different example, though)

LLM programming removes the need to write tedious code, which means the author has fewer opportunities to ask themselves if there are easier ways to model the problem they're solving. We would never have gotten language features like Objects, Iterators, first-class functions, and exceptions if all of the boilerplate to emulate those features could be autogenerated so easily.

Going forward, there will be less impetus for programmers to pick better languages and abstractions for their work, since the boilerplate cost of picking the wrong one is subsidized by the llm.

So I think the issue isn't so much that people won't know the syntax rules and bizzare-semantics trivia, but that people won't realize that the syntax rules could be different and that the whole point is for them to make your life easier.
From my perspective, this is AI bubble part 3 or 4. DARPA and UKI AI funding for chatbots, perceptrons dried up in the 70s; expert systems and symbolic reasoning dried up in the late ‘80s and ‘90s. Through the ’00s and ‘10s, ML/DL was successful, in part by shedding the guise of AI. Now we’re in an unsupervised learning and large-scale multilayer transformer networks wave, and while I expect the financing bubble for these projects will pop sooner than later, the tech will continue to live on and be integrated into future projects, as have all other previous AI breakthroughs.
Thanks for the feedback! writedown has been in beta for almost a year and we weren't working on it for the last 8 months, so I apologize for any unpolished features.

We're actually in the process of changing the whole landing page and updating the app, so hopefully it will be stable enough soon :)
EU plan to force apps to scan for CSAM risks millions of false positives
I'm still not going to feel bad when squashing mosquitos.

Spiders are friends though. And bugs like moths just get evicted if they are a nuisance. I feel bad about killing those.

But screw mosquitos. Well I guess I could let the males live, but I have no way to know.
I find it ironic that people here assume the country is acting in good faith. For when you read the article in question and know some cultural background of the country - more stock of rice would decrease the price of rice hurting the current rice farmers and decreasing the value of farm land, rice brokers, etc. it’s a real complicated issue where even if you go get milled rice you’ll get rocks thrown in as it increases the weight by 5-15%.

This isn’t any fear of gmo risks, but an act to protect the status quo.
Interesting, the college I went to (2009) didn’t teach it at all. C++ was the lowest level they taught and they switched to Python after I left (as in they use it instead of c++ last I heard).

If I ever needed to write assembly (which probably means something has gone horribly wrong in my life) then I’m sure I could learn it on the fly, just like I’ve learned other things never taught in college on an as-needed basis.
Not default web tech. It can be done with IPFS via IPFS Companion browser extension - https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ipfs-companion/nibj... or browsers with native IPFS client support like Brave or Opera.

Fetching these models over IPFS would locally cache them and dedupe calls for them by IPFS content ids - https://docs.ipfs.tech/concepts/content-addressing/#:~:text=... which functions similar to a file hash (not an exact parallel, since CIDs represent files that are broken up into chunks).

This would help with object DL deduplication if everyone is using the same models & would also help to decrease centralized data egress costs since with sufficient usage you would be DLing these models from other peers that are running IPFS nodes and holding onto the models.
> Kids these days don’t know basic assembly, they have no idea what an or/and/nor/xor gate is, they’ve never built a computer from components (no, not cpu/mb/ram/etc, I’m talking transistors and soldering).

At each layer, though, we have a legible formal theory bridging one level to the next, and the abstractions tend to be so reliable the last thing most of us will consider is a hardware/assembler/compiler bug (though they do occasionally happen).

LLMs bridge layers illegibly and probabilistically. I can already see how they're helpful, but they do have some different characteristics that mean reliability and the connection to lower levels of the stack are an issue.
> And don't even get me started about mysql_real_escape_string! It has the word "real" in it. I mean, come on, who would ever name a function "real", and why?

> [...]

> The name of the function "mysql_real_escape_string" says all you need to know about the culture and carelessness and lack of security consciousness of the PHP community.

The reasoning for this boils down to historic reasons and backwards compatibility. And the naming here isn't even PHP's fault at all, so maybe rethink your rant a bit!

Correctly escaping a bind variable string in MySQL depends on the connection's character set, since a few rarely-used character sets involve more complexity with escaping. But full support for character sets wasn't added to MySQL until version 4.1, released 20 years ago in 2004.

So prior to that, in the MySQL C client API, you could safely escape strings using the mysql_escape_string C function. But after connection-level character sets were added, this was no longer sufficient. And you can't change the function signature in a widely-used C library without breaking all prior users of the library. So the MySQL C client API introduced mysql_real_escape_string to solve this, which takes a connection pointer as its first parameter, and then deprecated the old mysql_escape_string at the same time.

So then PHP added their mysql_real_escape_string to match this, and deprecated the old mysql_escape_string, but did not remove it because it would break all old programs. And at the time two decades ago, this actually made sense! Many of those old programs were still using pre-4.1 MySQL (since 4.1 was still brand new), in which case the old mysql_escape_string was still perfectly secure, since connections didn't have character sets.

Today it's clear that both PHP and MySQL should have acted more aggressively to remove the deprecated connectionless mysql_escape_string shortly after this all happened. But from my memory, the industry's views on security vs backwards compatibility were quite different 20 years ago than they are today.